Cultural References
In the 2011 Christmas Day Special of the television series Downton Abbey, Lord Grantham, after learning of the pregnancy of his daughter Sybil, who is married to an Irish revolutionary, says, “So, we’re to have a Fenian grandchild.” His wife, Lady Grantham, replies, “Cheer up. Come the revolution, it may be useful to have a contact on the other side.”
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—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
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